Stress Can Be Enhancing

According to a new post by Andrew Huberman, a growth mindset is the best mindset to apply to improve at anything.

Of course, if you’ve been following along for a while, you already knew that. It’s one of our core value at GAIN, and has been for me personally since I ready Carol Dweck’s Mindset while in college. It shifted my perspective on, well, everything.

Cultivating a growth mindset wasn’t easy, and one thing that made it stick was a new perspective that hard things are valuable teaching tools.

Back to Huberman’s post.

He states, “If you do something for the sheer effort required to participate, over time you’ll likely perform very well at it too… Recent data show that growth mindset is most effective when combined with factual understanding that stress can enhance mental and/or physical performance by mobilizing our energy and focus.”

To summarize, don’t just cultivate a growth mindset, you also should to embrace the idea that, “Stress Can Be Enhancing,” to compliment it.

Justin Miner

@justinminergain